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Hadron Collider experiments have played a crucial role in recent particle-physics discoveries and are currently the main tool for exploring TeV scale physics. The second run of the LHC saw an unprecedented data set which opens novel possibilities for searches for new physics, precision measurements such as the properties of the Higgs boson, as well as detailed studies of the flavour sector and heavy-ion physics..

To realize the full potential of these developments, CERN and Fermilab are jointly offering a series of "Hadron Collider Physics Summer Schools", to prepare young researchers for these exciting times. The school has alternated between CERN and Fermilab, and will return to CERN for the fourteenth edition, from 28 August to 6 September 2019.

The CERN-Fermilab Hadron Collider Physics Summer School is an advanced school targeted particularly at young postdocs and senior PhD students working towards the completion of their thesis project, in both experimental HEP and phenomenology. Other schools, such as the CERN European School of High Energy Physics (http://cern.ch/physicschool), may provide more appropriate training for students in experimental HEP who are working towards their PhDs.

Calendar and Details

Mark your calendar for 28 August– 6 September 2019, when CERN will welcome accepted students to the 14th joint CERN-Fermilab Hadron Collider Physics Summer School. The School will include ten days of lectures and discussions, with one free day in the middle of the period.

Limited scholarship funds will be available to support some participants.

Updates, application procedures and more details are available at the web site: http://indico.cern.ch/event/hcpss2019 . The deadline for applications and reference letters is 31 March 2019.

The TALENT initiative, Training in Advanced Low Energy Nuclear Theory, aims to provide an advanced and comprehensive training to graduate students and young researchers in all aspects of low-energy nuclear theory. General information on TALENT and past courses can be found at http://www.nucleartalent.org.

Three TALENT courses will be offered in 2019. The topics, principal lecturers, and application links are:

Course 1: "From quarks and gluons to nuclear forces and structure" at the ECT* in Trento, Italy from July 15 to August 2, 2019. The principal lecturers will be Zohreh Davoudi, Evgeny Epelbaum, Dean Lee, Tom Luu, and Andrea Shindler. Apply at https://indico.frib.msu.edu/event/8/registrations/2/ starting February 25, 2019. Deadline for applications is April 19, 2019.

Course 6: "Theory for exploring nuclear reaction experiments" at FRIB on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, MI from June 3 to 21, 2019. The principal lecturers will include Carl Brune, Charlotte Elster, and Sofia Quaglioni. Apply at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/13155. Deadline for applications is March 31, 2019.

Course 11: "Bayesian methods and machine learning" at the University of York in York, UK from June 10 to 28, 2019. The principal lecturers will be Christian Forssen, Dick Furnstahl, Daniel Phillips, and Ian Vernon. Apply at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/13154. Deadline for applications is March 31, 2019.

Atomic physics techniques – laser spectroscopy - readily yields fundamental and model-independent data on the structure of nuclear states. The competition between nuclear shell and collective effects results in changes of shapes and sizes within nuclear systems. Such shapes perturb the atomic energy levels of atoms and ions at the ppm level. This small absolute effect is probed and measured by modern laser spectroscopic methods, i.e. collinear laser spectroscopy at Jyväskylä and in-gas jet laser spectroscopy at S3-LEB. The IGISOL facility, Jyväskylä, uses the ion guide method of producing exotic radioactive ion beams. Collinear laser spectroscopy is one of the main workhorses of the facility. The S3-LEB facility, GANIL, will produce exotic radioactive beams by fusion-evaporation reactions. The LEB (Low Energy Branch) set-up will allow to access nuclear properties of nuclei by means of in-gas jet laser spectroscopy. Both laboratories permit access to regions of the nuclear chart which are currently either inaccessible to the majority of ISOL facilities, or are challenging to probe spectroscopically due to the complexity of the atomic structure. One such region lies between the Zr (Z=40) and Sn (Z=50). This transitional region serves up a rich landscape of shape transitions, shape coexistence and triaxiality.

This thesis work will concentrate on the use of laser spectroscopy to probe nuclear states of Pd isotopes, produced either via proton-induced fission (for access to neutron-rich isotopes), or via light-ion induced fusion-evaporation reactions (neutron-deficient isotopes). The extracted data will be analyzed and will serve to provide insight into the evolution of nuclear collectivity away from closed shells. The doctoral student will spend considerable time working within the laser team of the IGISOL group (Jyväskylä, Finland), thus learning all aspects of ion beam production, manipulation techniques, the use of state-of-the-art laser systems, frequency stabilization and atomic spectroscopy. In parallel, the student will also have an opportunity to take advanced courses in Jyväskylä connected to optical spectroscopy and mass measurement techniques for fundamental nuclear structure. In addition, the student will participate on the commissioning of the S3-LEB set-up at LPC-Caen (France) getting familiarized with in-gas jet laser spectroscopy techniques. Soft and transferrable skills will also be developed including presentation work, scientific writing for publications and so forth. The thesis work will be performed in collaboration with international teams will provide valuable experience for a young researcher and networking opportunities required for a possible future career.

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has launched a call for a 5-month (max.) traineeship on the subject of nanoparticle size analysis/metrology.

The selected candidate will work, together with an experienced team, on the validation of a recently installed centrifugal liquid sedimentation analysis system which is based on the principles of Stokes' law.

Trainees are a priori selected from nationals of the Member States of the European Union (EU), from candidate countries benefitting from a pre-accession strategy and from other countries contributing financially to the Framework Programme. A limited number of other nationals may also be accepted. A derogation based on nationality from the Director-General is required for every non-EU national.

The DFG Research Training Group Strong and Weak Interactions - from Hadrons to Dark Matter at the University of Münster, Germany, invites applications for various PhD Positions (salary level TV-L E13, 75%).

PhD position (research associate) in Materials Science and Engineering

The Group of Materials for Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering of the TU Ilmenau seeks to fill the following position in a DFG (German Research Foundation) funded project (SPP Tailored Disorder) as soon as possible

Predocs en el CIEMAT. Gracias por difundirlo en la US.Dear all,There are upcoming openings of predoctoral positions at CIEMAT, one of them in our group.You can find further information in the following links:http://darkmatter.ciemat.es/predochttp://cfp.ciemat.es/predocThe offer to the position in our group is also attached. If you have outstanding motivated students, please forward them this information.

* Senior Lecturer in Analytical or Environmental Chemistry / SeniorLecturer in Theoretical or Computational Chemistry (2 Position [1]University of Melbourne, School of Chemistry Faculty of Science * PhD Scholarships in the School of Science [2]RMIT University, School of Science * Research Fellow in Computational Biochemistry [3]RMIT University, College of Science, Engineering and Health * Associate Professor in Physics [4]University of New South Wales, School of Physics * Senior Lecturer in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) [5]University of Western Australia (UWA), Centre for Microscopy,Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA) * PhD Scholarship in Atomic Theory [6]University of Queensland, School of Mathematics and Physics * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Food Chemistry [7]University of Queensland, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences * Research Fellow Experimental Condensed Matter Physics [8]Monash University, School of Physics and Astronomy

* Postdoctoral Researcher in Cell Biology and Biochemistry [15]University of Helsinki, Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE) * Postdoc Position in Radio Science at Sodankylä GeophysicalObservatory [16]University of Oulu, Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory * PhD position in Studies of the Ionospheric Current Systems [17]University of Oulu, Faculty of Science * Biomedical Physics Postdoctoral Researcher Position [18]University of Oulu, Faculty of Science * Joint Professorship of University of Oulu and Finnish MeteorologicalInstitute at Sodankylä [19]University of Oulu, Finnish Meteorological Institute at Sodankylä

GERMANY

* Professor of Palaeobotany [20]University of Münster, Faculty of Geosciences * W2-Professor of Physical Chemistry [21]University of Münster, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy

* PhD Studentship in Biochemistry and Biophotonics [26]University College Cork, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology * PhD Studentship in Biochemistry [27]University College Cork, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

JAPAN

* Kakenhi Post-doctoral researcher [28]Tokyo Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Future InterdisciplinaryResearch of Science and Technology (FIRST) * Faculty Position in Astrophysics and Cosmology [29]University of Tokyo, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics ofthe Universe * Research Associate at the Neutron Science Laboratory (Yamamuro Group)[30]University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics * Assistant Professor in Inorganic Functional Materials, MaterialsDesign [31]Tokyo Institute of Technology, Materials Research Center for Element
Strategy * Professor in Polymer science: Polymer synthesis, Polymer reaction,and Functional polymeric materials [32]Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Materials and Chemical
Technology * Research Associate at the International MegaGauss Science Laboratory(Kohama Group) [33]University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics * Assistant Professor at The Department of Earth and Planetary Science/ Solid earth science [34]University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science / Faculty of Science * Research Associate at Division of Nano-scale Science (Hasegawa Group)[35]University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics * Associate Professor at Asian Natural Environmental Science Center[36]University of Tokyo, Asian Natural Environmental Science Center * Research Associate Position in the Functional Materials Group(Yoshinobu Group) [37]University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics * Tenured Faculty Position in Neutron Science Laboratory [38]University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics * Postdoctoral researcher positions at the Institute for Solid StatePhysics [39]University of Tokyo, Institute for Solid State Physics * Postdoctoral Position in the field of Experimental Physics ofRadiation Imaging [40]University of Tokyo, Kavli IPMU

Several Ph.D. positions at the division of Applied Nuclear Physics, at Uppsala University. Successful candidates will do their Ph.D. in one of the four research groups: fission and safeguards group, fusion diagnostics group, nuclear reaction group, and the ion physics group.

The GSSI invites applications for 10 PHD STUDENT POSITIONS INASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS. We offer fully funded 4 YEARS PHD STUDENTSHIPSwith generous benefits (including lodging and meals) and travel fundsto attend summer/winter schools and international conferences. Thesuccessful candidates will have the opportunity of studying andworking in an international and interdisciplinary research environmentamong the most active and rapidly growing in Europe.

This is an offer for a 6-month internship at Fraunhofer FHR in Wachtberg (Germany) in the department of Cognitive Radar in the topic of mathematical optimization of radar arrays for future autonomous vehicles.

Starting date: from June

Compensation: depends on nature of the internship (Up to 1700 € net).

About the topic

Antenna Array design is a broad area of research with applications in all areas of Radar, and shared mathematical principles with other areas like acoustic and Sonar sensors. Our interest is in Automotive radar frequencies for Advance Driving Assistant Systems and future autonomous vehicles, in the band 77-79GHz. We aim to optimize the array configuration, rather than the antenna itself, and therefore we abstract the underlying electromagnetic phenomena to focus, instead, on the directionality properties achieved by the geometry of the array. Namely, we wish to obtain arrays that use few transmitters and receivers (i.e., sparse) but with big aperture and good directionality properties. Our problem thus becomes a mathematical optimization problem and we pay special attention to the definition of the objective function, constraints, and global (nonconvex) optimization algorithms like simulated annealing or genetic algorithms. In addition, we test the performance of the obtained optimized arrays in simulated scenarios of direction of arrival estimation using some popular algorithms in the Radar community like the Discrete Fourier Transform, MUSIC, or Maximum Likelihood, and other algorithms denominated as sparse reconstruction or Compressed Sensing.

In summary, we focus on a rigorous mathematical optimization approach but we also consider practical aspects such as the speed of convergence and the quality of the obtained arrays in empirical simulations (and eventually with real radar measurements). Some of our ideas are being considered by chip makers and automotive companies that want to achieve the best resolution and ambiguity suppression properties with few transmitters and receivers.

Prerequisites

Last year of master degree with excellent grades in area related to Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Good knowledge of English

Fluent in Matlab (preferred), or, alternatively, Python or C.

What you will obtain with us

Support and guidance in every aspect of your work

Working and collaborating in a group with passionate and caring individuals

Benefitting from the networking and mentoring opportunities at Fraunhofer, the largest applied science institution in Europe

Gaining familiarity with technical problems in Radar sensors in high demand in the automotive industry

Opportunity to learn German and live near a vibrant and international city that was the former capital of Germany

What we expect from you

We expect you to be dedicated and enthusiastic achieving the assigned goals.

We expect a level of maturity in mathematics and science that allows you use our guidance to learn about radar signal processing and proposed techniques and have a good level of autonomy and perseverance in your work, although of course we will be close to you.

We expect an open attitude to ask questions and flexibly collaborate with us.

What we will achieve together

We will extend our current techniques for array design and develop new ones. We will use these techniques to consult for companies, and publish some of our results.

Contact information

Interested, please send your CV and contact information to María González-Huici maria.gonzalez@fhr.fraunhofer.de, or/and David Mateos-Núnez david.mateos-nunez@fhr.fraunhofer.de. Tell us one or two concrete reasons why you think you are specially qualified for this position and, if possible, send us the contact information of one person that can attest your vocation.

12 de marzo de 2018

PhD position in Nuclear Physics
Study of Short-Range Correlations in exotic nuclei

The nuclear structure group of the Nuclear Physics Department (IRFU/DPhN) of CEA Saclay (France) is looking
for a candidate for a PhD Thesis in experimental nuclear physics.

Two open positions for PhD-students at the Division of Applied Nuclear Physics, Uppsala University. One project focuses on measurements of independent and isomeric fission yields in collaboration with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. The other project concerns gamma emission tomography of nuclear fuel in collaboration with the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) in Norway. Both projects are funded by the Swedish Research Institute (VR) with the aim to promote advanced competence within the area of new nuclear technology for the fourth generation nuclear power.

The fourth Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2018, to be held in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 12-25 September 2018, is open for applications (deadline 1 April 2018). AEPSHEP is held every second year, hosted in countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The first three Schools in the series were held in Fukuoka, Japan, in 2012, in Puri, India, in 2014, and near Beijing, China, in 2016.

Applications to attend the School are invited particularly from students from countries in the Asia-Pacific region and from Europe, although applications from other regions will also be considered. The programme of the school will be at a level appropriate for PhD students in experimental particle physics. It is anticipated that students working on phenomenology (if not too far from particle-physics experiment) will also be accepted. The School is open to junior post-docs (typically less than two years after completing their PhD), and also advanced MSc students provided their prior knowledge is comparable with that of the principal target audience so that they can benefit from the courses offered at the School.

Wherever possible participants are expected to obtain funding for the fee as well as their travel from their home countries. However, some sponsorship will be available for a limited number of students from countries with developing programmes in particle physics. Eligible students are therefore encouraged to apply even if they do not expect to obtain funding from their home institute to attend the School.

Regards Nick Ellis
(On behalf of the International Organising Committee)

The division of Subatomic and Plasma Physics, Department of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology has an opening for a PhD student in experimental nuclear physics. We have a long-standing leading experience within experimental nuclear physics, having pursued a long, successful scientific programme in particular at the international infrastructures GSI/FAIR and CERN-ISOLDE. We have in particular a strong involvement in the construction of the international FAIR facility and its prime experiment for radioactive beams, R3B (Reactions with Relativistic Radioactive Beams) at NUSTAR. We as well coordinate a major grant covering the Swedish in-kind contributions towards FAIR-NUSTAR instrumentation.

The PhD project will be focussed towards developing and completing instrumentation and methods for the R3B experiment at FAIR and to subsequently use these systems for experiments on light nuclear systems, in order to draw conclusions about weakly bound, correlated systems governed by the strong force. The candidate will, within an international team of collaborators, make a significant contribution towards making the instrumentation ready for experiments, take a key role in the execution and subsequent analysis and interpretation of the experimental campaigns. Given the stage of the project, the successful applicant is expected to develop methods and hardware for detector read-out, signal processing and data acquisition.

ICFO’s Summer Fellows program provides a unique opportunity to carry out a challenging research project in one of the topics active at ICFO. The program, supported by the Fundació Catalunya - La Pedrera · Ignacio Cirac Program Chair, aims at giving outstanding students early exposure to frontier science and research. Suitable candidates are ideally within the last two years of their Masterequivalent or Engineering degree studies (eligible areas include
Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology).

The University of Regina has several M.Sc. and Ph.D opportunities for students wishing to pursue a degree in experimental subatomic physics. A poster is attached that has more information on some of the research topics our faculty are presently pursuing. Interested students should contact the professor(s) indicated on our website. More information about the department and the University of Regina can also be found on our website.

The Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) offers 14 PhD positions within the INPhINIT programme, promoted by the "La Caixa Foundation" with the European Commission's support through the Horizon 2020 MSCA Actions and COFUND programme.

The Instituto de Física Corpuscular, as "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence", is one of the top Spanish research institutions were the selected candidates can carrry out their PhD thesis funded by this programme. IFIC is devoted to research in Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics and its applications to other fields of science and technology. IFIC covers both the theoretical and experimental aspects of these fields.

These early-stage researchers will enjoy a 3-year contract with very advantageous conditions. In addition, the INPhINIT programme sets up a complementary skills training scheme that includes Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship workshops, and Professional and Career Development sessions.

The High Energy Physics Institute in Barcelona (IFAE-Barcelona) announces the opening of 12 predoctoral positions for outstanding young graduates interested in working towards a PhD thesis at IFAE. IFAE is one of the top research centers in Spain conducting experimental and theoretical research at the frontier of fundamental physics, as well as developing cutting-edge detector technology. IFAE is one of the few Spanish research institutes awarded with the Severo Ochoa distinction for excellence on research (recently renewed for the 2017-2021 period).

These positions are funded by the "La Caixa" Foundation under the INPhINIT program, a new doctoral fellowship program devoted to attracting International Early-Stage Researchers to the top Spanish research centres in the areas of Bio and Health Sciences, Physics, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. INPhINIT relies on the European Commission's support through the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska- Curie Actions - COFUND programme to recruit a larger number of researchers and achieve a broader impact, as well as to further pursue the highest standards for research training.

Interested candidates with an excellent CV and satisfying the eligibility criteria are encouraged to apply online.

We are currently advertising positions for two PhD students and one Postdoc
at Chalmers University of Technology, for conducting research in theoretical
nuclear physics and ab initio EFT approaches for analyzing atomic nuclei.

I would be very grateful if you could bring this to the attention of any
qualified candidates.

Please contact me via phone or email if you have any questions.
The application deadlines are 30 November, and starting dates 1 February
2018 (flexible).

At ARFIMA, we believe that our main asset is our people. We are dedicated to create an exciting and challenging workplace to attract talented and motivated individuals. Everyone in our workplace is strongly encouraged to move forward every day, to learn and to innovate using our in-house training program.

FPI contract opening to do a PhD at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in the project "Teorías efectivas en física de partículas y cosmología", FPA2016-75654-C2-1-P. Applications from interested candidates with a master in theoretical physics, or equivalent, start from 3 October 2017 and will finish on 18 October 2017.

The PhD would be supervised by Antonio Dobado and Juan José Sanz Cillero, within the UCM research group on particles and cosmology. The group is particularly keen to attract a candidate interested in the general area of effective field theory applications to new physics searches at LHC and future accelerators, and to the study of low-energy hadron phenomenology.